Map My Ride With GPS Tracker
Map My Ride is a long-standing fitness tracking app praised for its reliability and comprehensive tracking features, but recent updates and monetization strategies have led to significant user frustration regarding GPS accuracy, app stability, and the prevalence of ads and paywalls.
Map My Ride is a well-established fitness app that users have relied on for over a decade to track cycling, walking, and other activities, providing detailed stats like pace, time, and distance. While many appreciate its ease of use and motivational features, recent reviews highlight issues with GPS accuracy, frequent app pauses, and a shift towards more aggressive monetization with ads and subscription prompts, leading to a mixed user experience.
What users like
- Reliable and easy to use for tracking various activities over many yearsR3R8R10R11
- Provides detailed stats like pace, time, distance, elevation gain, and speedR3R24R26R41
- Offers motivational features like challenges and weekly recapsR14R24R36R52
- Voice feedback for mileage updates is appreciated by some usersR38R643
What users complain about
- GPS tracking is often inaccurate, showing incorrect distances or routesR7R19R29R81
- Frequent and accidental pausing of workouts, with auto-pause not reliably restartingR6R43R67R107
- Issues with app stability, including crashing, freezing, and not saving workoutsR33R40R65R86
- Aggressive monetization with frequent ads and mandatory free trial prompts before useR4R9R21R34
- Calorie calculation is often perceived as inaccurate or buggyR1R31R171R173
- Lack of integration or issues with Apple Health and other devices like Fitbit or GarminR2R20R97R171
- Historical workout data has been lost or is difficult to access after updatesR25R161
- Battery drain is a significant concern for some usersR31R370
- Login and account creation issues, including problems with Apple ID and password resetsR16R53R109R166
- Settings do not consistently save changes, reverting to defaultsR84R189
- Poor interface design, including inconvenient button placement and lack of dark modeR84R87R137R141
- Voice feedback for time is incorrect when using a 24-hour clockR190
Latest update · v26.7.3
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
This update includes bug fixes and performance enhancements to help you reach your fitness goals. Love the app? Leave a review in the App Store and let us know! For questions or feedback, contact our support team through the app: Go to More > Help > Contact Support.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for individuals who prioritize long-term tracking of various fitness activities like cycling, walking, and running, and appreciate features like detailed stats, route mapping, and motivational challenges R24R52. It may be particularly appealing to those who have used it for years and have established workout history within the app R3R12R24. It is not for users who are sensitive to in-app ads, unwilling to pay for subscriptions, or require highly accurate GPS and calorie tracking R21R29R31.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew negative, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. Many positive reviews are from long-term users expressing general satisfaction, while negative reviews often detail specific, recent technical issues and monetization frustrations. The confidence in identifying specific cons is high due to multiple, detailed complaints across various users.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R3] Best App!!: Have used it for over a decade. Great way to keep track of pace, time and distance.
- [R8] Easy to use: This app is always easy to use. No bugs!
- [R10] Live the app-love it!: Been using the app for years and never had issues.
- [R11] Best hiking and biking app: Great app. It’s been a great app for a while. Easy to use, no bugs. To the users/owners of the app… Please don’t change anything. Don’t be like so many other companies and screw up something. You are already winning…!
- [R24] Map my Ride: I’ve been using MapMyRide for probably 10 years now, and I can honestly say it’s one of the most motivating fitness applications I’ve ever used. The app has tracked and logged my rides for over a decade, which allows me to look back and see the progress I’ve made throughout the years. That alone has been incredibly motivating and rewarding. The app is easy to use, reliable, and great
- [R26] Smash: Amazing details very happy
- [R41] Incredible app for Road cycling: Great user experience, reliability+ tracking of key stats
- [R14] Daily Rides: Love the app helps me stay on track and sends me a weekly recap. Easy to use and very helpful. Thx!
- [R36] EVERYTHING: I love everything about it. It motivates me as well!
- [R52] Motivation: I’ve been using the app for two years now keep me motivated. Help me able to look back and see how far certain regular routes are. shows elevation gain, shows speed, shows steps. It’s phenomenal app not to mention all the many challenges that are offered. I use the free version since I have other apps for heart rate and training works great all the time. Love it.
- [R38] Best free app I've tried: Of the apps I've tried, this one works the best for me. I don't have any fancy sensors or anything, all I do is ride and listen to Apple podcasts. 7 or 8 years ago I think that, there was a problem where this app wouldn't pause the podcast when it was giving me my mileage updates and I wrote a review about it then I think they fixed it in less than a year and now it wor
- [R643] Great tracking: Great tracking, great voice notification. Poor sharing to multimedia No posting to Instagram
- [R7] Milage: GPS mileage is off other that works well
- [R19] Mileage: I gave it a five star so it doesn’t get buried in the review. Just be aware that the mileage on this app is not accurate. It’s at least 0.5 miles off from two other tracker apps I use and bike my computer
- [R29] Utterly unreliable: That app completely unreliable. On a regular basis is does not track my bike ride accurately. Today it was off by nearly a mile on an 8 mile ride. It shows my cutting through peoples yards, riding through houses, cutting corners, etc. It’s a joke. It accurate more often than not, but the rate of inaccuracy is completely unacceptable.
- [R81] Not accurate: I really liked some of the features and wanted to use this app. Love that it shows average speed but then I noticed the distance was very inaccurate. It is not my phone. I came from another biking app that measures right on. Verified by driving it in a car to check the distance. Over a 15 mile ride this app was 1 mile short. Fix that and you have a nice app.
- [R6] Pause: Too many times the app pauses. Make pause a double tap or something!!
- [R43] A very good app except for one bug: It's easy to use & distances are quite accurate. I use it for cycling & for rollerblading. The autopause feature is not reliable. It does not always restart when I resume my workout. E.g. - I might stop for a drink of water after 22 minutes & then resume my ride or rollerblading. I might finish after what I think is another 40 minutes. I then check the app & it
- [R67] Good but buggy: I’ve been using this app for several years, hoping they’d fix the quirks. It has always done this weird thing where it will pause the workout if I make a U-Turn on my ride. It doesn’t matter that I’m going 10 miles an hour (which it knows. It says it on the display) if I turn around and go back near where I was a few seconds earlier, it pauses and then starts back up. Fine. Stupi
- [R107] App doesn’t restart: For the last week the auto pause has kicked in at slow speeds and on several occasions has failed to restart. Would be nice to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the auto pause to avoid it stoping on a hairpin turn or slow climb. Restarting?
- [R33] The app no longer works: It doesn’t record anything at all. It still hadn’t been fixed
- [R40] Map My Ride: Lousy job upon the workout, it doesn’t keep the logs 😡
- [R65] App works about 60% of the time.: This app has been great, but lately, it isn’t. It’s only recording every other workout correctly, for instance, yesterday I was in the gym for 1 hour and 22 min, I go to shut the tracker off, but it says I’ve only been in the gym for 32 min and counting, this is frustrating, and it’s happening all the time now, like every other workout, it will malfunction. This i
- [R86] It shuts its self off to quit: Not a happy cyclist
- [R4] An excellent workout tool!: I love the app! It’s have the see inside the beginning. However, don’t appreciate the ads which I have tried to turn off; this is especially annoying since I pay for the version I use.
- [R9] Don’t even download: I’ll save you from wasting your time. Don’t even bother downloading this app. Just another useless app in the Apple Store trying to monetize your existing. Not worth it.
- [R21] Everything comes with a fee today: Downloaded the app because I recently got a bike and was very excited to start tracking my journey. Downloaded this app and immediately after creating an account it asked for a free trial. I'm tired of everything having to be a subscription or some type of fee. I will gladly never use this app because of this. I can't even delete my account without starting the f
- [R34] Why ads?????: It’s fine. It does what I want. But it gives me ads every time I open it. I just want to open and ride. That’s it.
- [R1] Why does the calorie go down during downtime?: Why does the calorie go down when I’m not actively cycling? Isn’t it supposed to remain constant? Why does it go down?
- [R31] Good app but two major issues: Overall the app tracks my workout very well. Unfortunately it is a major battery hog, more than a typical map app. Also, their algorithm for calculating calories burned is absurd. When I bike up a large hill, the calorie count decreases. Depending on the size of hill I could go a full mile and have a net zero calories burned.
- [R171] Good but Calories show 0: This app is really good because it tracks where you bike and tells you your distance. The only problem I have with this app is that it doesn’t count your calories so you get no calories on your fitness app on your phone. The only to fix this is to start another workout on the Apple Watch which most people don’t have anyways. If any devs are reading please fix this.
- [R173] Calories: Enjoy the app, but don’t understand why it doesn’t show any calories burned?? very odd
- [R2] Wish it connected to the health app: Mac
- [R20] Great App!: Good solid app with a lot of cool free features. A bit confused on how to connect to my garmin watch, but besides that very useful!
- [R97] Doesn’t pair with Apple Health: Doesn’t pair with Apple health app
- [R25] Good tracking, Lost history: Does a good job tracking individual rides, week, last 30 day, current month and ytd, but they took away 10 years of history for mileage, speeds, etc. recently with no warning and now you can’t even go back and look at previous month or previous year stats. Thinking about switching to Strava.
- [R161] Lost my old workouts after converting from Android to iPhone: Why, where is my data
- [R370] Battery sapping but otherwise good: Each 30 minute ride saps about half the battery of my iPhone X, which is a real nuisance. But it maps well and syncs most often and is a useful tool.
- [R16] Log In: Love the app, I occasionally start my ride where there is ZERO cell service. Sometimes I open the app expecting to record my ride and get the “Login Screen.” With no internet connection it is not possible to log in so the ride doesn’t get recorded. At that moment I definitely do not love the app…
- [R53] Not letting me sign up: This app did jot let me use it because i did not meet the terms of use i am the right age and everything but it still doesn't work
- [R109] Something wrong - ask for e-mail!: I tried to registered via Sign with Apple to hide e-mail, but app tells me - you have to enter valid email later, also birth date, first name, last name and gender! So what’s the point of Sign with Apple? This this violation of the App Store developer’s guidelines. Can’t login or register via Apple account, still have to enter email! Bad quality of supporting A
- [R166] Don’t bother: If you have 12 hours to convince this app that yes, that is the password I set, and it is not wrong, then by all means keep the app. My choice was to delete the app and move on with my day. Much better apps available. Dealing with this app is like beating your head against the wall. They need a negative number scale to rate it. One star is five stars too many.
- [R84] Poor interface: App is very poorly laid out, even the settings are glitchy, I tried to switch miles to kilometers and it would not save, kept hitting the top left arrow to go back, nothing.. finally right swiped screen. Second glitch I started a workout and it started with measuring distance and speed walked while I was still sitting in my chair…
- [R189] Hoping for much needed updates: I have asked for over 15 years for settings to retain the changes made after logging out, but the developers refuse to address this issue, which is a MAJOR pain for someone whom always signs out, so they revert to the defaults every time. Was told numerous times it’s for people that share a phone. Who shares a phone? A lot of people even have more than one! Maddeni
- [R87] Where are the MAPS!!!: I just want an app to plan routes easily. There is NO place/button where you can explore existing routes or make your own. I don’t care about the other workout features. And why the first thing you see in the app is a bunch of strangers talking about random things. The top on on my feed was some photo of a piano keyboard. Canceling free trial immediately.
- [R137] Bad location for pause and resume buttons: Time for me to find a new biking app. I am constantly accidentally hitting the pause button when trying to change to a different screen. The button is too close to the bottom of the screen. If are riding with a phone holder , you will accidentally hit the pause button when you swipe up and you won’t Even realize it. It’s Constantly screwing up my ride r
- [R141] No dark mode?: Too bright get w the times
- [R190] Voice Feedback time is messed up: Repeated trouble tickets over the years about this apparent programming error have resulted in acknowledgment but no correction. This failure reflects deficiencies in their process and operations and leaves one wondering what other problems & inaccuracies have been neglected to reduce costs. Specifically, if iPhone is set to use a 24-hour clock, Voice Feedback w
- [R23] Map my ride: It didn’t measure my distance
- [R12] Long time customer: I’ve had this app for at least 10 years probably longer it works well!
- [R22] Practical and Easy to use: I’ve been using MapMyRide for several years now, in fact I really don’t know how long I’ve been using it. I have the version that you pay for. It works really well and I use it a lot, almost every day for biking (road cycling) or for walking. I really enjoy the feature that announces when I have gone 5 miles and 10 miles!
- [R75] IMMEDIATELY CHARGED FOR FREE TRAIL: I was immediately charged for the one year trial and not at $39.99 or 3.99 but at 9.99 the monthly rate. I clearly had the yearly free trail box highlighted, and it was witnessed by my friend who recommended the app. $39.99 is a great price for a year, after a week of trying it and I liked it I would’ve gladly paid that. But, they charged me for the most expensi
- [R131] Excited but…: I was looking forward to trying it out but then after I made an account suddenly I get a two week free trial and then I have to pay to use the app? Would make more sense to let people know there isn’t a free version instead of having them sign up and then find out just to delete and go find another app.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store